oh my god, newsreels! British Pathé archive now on YouTube

In case you missed the recent announcement, news archive British Pathé has just uploaded more than a century’s worth of footage — 85,000 films (according to Variety) — to YouTube. This astonishing historical resource is now available to everyone to watch. It’s stuff like this 1945 newsreel about a bomber crashing into the Empire State Building in New York:

Check out the melodrama in the narration of footage of the Hindenburg disaster: